June 2019 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for June 2019:
SRI-Rice website: 2,310 users (2,900 last month) from 73 countries (79 last month) logged 3,019 sessions (3,696 last month) in which 5,054 pages (6,134 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of users: India (810), USA (341), Philippines (138), Tanzania (136), Nepal (116), Malaysia (56), Pakistan (42), UK (41), Japan (41), Australia (37),
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,545; 2,603 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 327 subscribers, SRI West Africa: 2,059 members, SICA America Latina: 1,136 total likes; 1,154 follows.
YouTube (primary): 4,874 (3,671 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 177 views (161 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 985 subscribers (39 new). 177,457 all time views of our videos. 89,812 lifetime views of our playlists (2013-2019) [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel].
Twitter: 1,806 followers (1 new this month)
Slideshare: 7,482 (5,853 last month) views new this month; 524 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 239 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,563 items (1,182 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (15 new) (700+ of these appear in the Mendeley SRI Research database, but we are not adding to this anymore). Note: We are no longer adding to RefWorks as it was retired in Dec. 2015. Please use Zotero.)
• For additional global news see: our News page, Latest Additions, SRI Newsletter, LinkedIn, YouTube (India), and photo gallery, or, see news by country
• See: SRI-Rice Center news for updates on our program's staff, students and activities
• SRI-Rice web pages updated during June 2019: 2019, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Mali, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Archives, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, index, research network page, May 2019, videos.
News from past months
In the Press - June 2019
- Northern provinces urged to bring pesticide use under control [5,000 training courses on SRI and IPM were offered to 120,000+ farmers with the expectation of bringing agrochemical use under control.]
June, 29, 2019, VietNam News (Vietnam) - Drought teaches people the value of water [SRI more popular as people realize water shortages.]
June 28, 2019, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Agriculture: Le projet farm offredes guides de bonnes pratiques agricoles [At the Canadian-Malian FARM project ceremony hosted by the Ministry of Ag.,"best practices guides" were distributed on various techniques including SRI.]
June 26, 2019, BAMADA.net (Mali) - Université de Ségou: Atelier d'information sur les innovations dans les CVA et CIV [Segou University hosted a workshop on "Green Innovation Centers of Segou that included SRI. Participants undertook a stakeholder mapping exercise to reinforce links between the university and extension services that serve farmers.]
June 20, 2019, BAMADA.net (Mali)
- Margao: As monsoon delays, farmers worry for paddy crops [Late monsoon causes concern; SRI still not widely practiced.]
June 9, 2019, The Times of India (Goa, India) - Office du périmètre irrigué de Baguinéda : Le riz de contre-saison pour entamer sereinement la campagne
May 31, 2019, BAMADA.net (Mali) [accessed June 4, 2019]
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during June 2019
- 2019. Teknologi budidaya padi dan perubahan iklim. ICCTF website. June 28. [Article about the Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund project on SRI in Sumba Timur, Indonesia]
- Thansrithong, Boonsong. 2019. Training in SRI (System of Rice Intensification) ขอเชิญเข้าร่วมอบรม “การปลูกข้าวต้นเดียว”. ECHO Community website. July 1. [Announcement for an all-day SRI training on July 12, 2019, at the ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center & Seed Bank, Chiang Mai, Thailand]
- Ranjeevkr. 2019. चावल गहनता प्रणाली (System of Rice Intensification SRI). Krisiweb website. June 30. [Excellent Hindi language overview of SRI and its benefits]
- Leinau, Stephen. 2019. Our recent SRI training for smallholder rice farmers in Nicaragua. Earth Links website. June 28. [Nicaragua SRI training partners included Earth Links, ADDAC, IICA, Three Americas and SRI-Global.]
- Mati, Bancy. 2019. SRI presented at the International Rice Congress in Changsha, China. SRI-Africa.net. June 28. [Prof. Bancy Mati presents at China-Africa rice congress in Changsha, China.]
- Islam, Asad, et al. 2019. How information matters for adopting a new technology in Bangladesh. VOX CEPR Policy Portal. June 6. [Article by Monash University researchers using SRI to study adoption.]
- Beege, Bastian (contact), 2019. Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector (GIC). GIZ website. [GIC project, a German govt. project in many countries, reports to have trained 7,500 farmers in Mali in SRI in conjunction with an irrigation initiative.]
- 2019. Meningkatkan kualitas dan produksi padi dengan System of Rice Intensification. Adisucipto webiste. June 19. [Overview of SRI in Indonesian language.]
- Poudel, Suraj. 2019. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Scholar Space website. June 9. [Overview of SRI principles, practices and benefits.]
- 2019. Nilima. sri4women website. [Story of the president of the Ath-Kosia Tribal People's Organisation in Orissa, who promotes SRI to reduce women's drudgery in rice production.] [accessed June 5, 2019]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during June 2019
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Husnah, Wan ‘Alia, Wan Abdullah. 2017. Impacts of system of rice intensification farming on marginal land. Masters thesis, University of Malaya. [accessed June 27, 2019]
- Shahane, Amit Anil, et al. 2019. Crop establishment methods, use of microbial consortia, biofilms and zinc fertilization for enhancing productivity and profitability of rice–wheat cropping system. Agricultural Research 8(1): 44-55. doi:10.1007/s40003-018-0344-4 [accessed June 13, 2019]
- Dattatraya, Vibhute Sagar. 2018. Modelling crop water productivity of rice under different cultivation methods. PhD dissertation, Division of Agricultural Engineering Indian Agricultural Research Institute - New Delhi [June 10, 2019]
- Hasanah, Nur Aini Iswati, et al. 2019. Optimizing rice paddies’ lower greenhouse gas emissions and higher yield with SRI management under varying water table levels. Paddy and Water Environment (online first June 11) pp 1-11. doi:10.1007/s10333-019-00744-z. [accessed June 15, 2019]
- • Dewi, Ardiana Puspa. 2018. Analisis pertumbuhan tanaman padi (Oryza sativa L.) System of Rice Intensification (SRI) di lahan terasering Wonogiri, Jawa Tengah. Thesis, Gadja Mada University (Yogyakarta, Indonesia). 76 p. [accessed June 10, 2019]
- Shahane, Amit Anil, et al. 2019. Nitrogen nutrition and use efficiency in rice as influenced by crop establishment methods, cyanobacterial and phosphate solubilizing bacterial consortia and zinc fertilization. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis pp 1-3 (online June 8). doi:10.1080/00103624.2019.1626876 [accessed June 10, 2019]
- *Kushwaha, H. L., et al. 2019. Design, development and performance evaluation of manual planter for system of wheat intensification. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 89 (4): 678–87 [June 8, 2019]
- Harriss-White, Barbara, Alfred Gathorne-Hardy, and Gilbert Rodrigo. 2019. Towards lower-carbon Indian agricultural development: An experiment in multi-criteria mapping (online first, May 30, 2019) Review of Development and Change 10.1177/0972266119845952 [accessed June 7, 2019]
- • Arif, Chusnul, et al. 2019. System of Rice Intensification: An alternative mitigation strategy to Greenhouse Gas emissions from paddy fields in Indonesia. pp. 37-51 In: Climate Smart Agriculture for the Small-Scale Farmers in the Asian and Pacific Region, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan. [accessed June 2, 2019]
- Mwalupaso, G. E., et al. 2019. Recuperating dynamism in agriculture through adoption of sustainable agricultural technology - Implications for cleaner production. Journal of Cleaner Production (in press), doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.366 [accessed June 2, 2019]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) and New Websites- June 2019
- Inspire cic / Promoting sustainable ag is a section of the Floddedcellar Productions webiste primarily devoted to SRI videos. [accessed July 12, 2019]
- SRI4Women has an Instagram site, a twitter, a Vimeo site, a facebook page, and main website!
- Uphoff, Norman. 2019. Realising the System of Rice Intensification’s potential. SPORE magazine, opinion section. May 31. [June 2, 2019]
[French: Uphoff, Norman. 2019. Développer le potentiel du système de riziculture intensive. SPORE magazine, opinion section. May 31.] [June 2, 2019]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - June 2019
- [Web pages updated during June: 2019, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Mali, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Archives, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, index, research network page, videos.]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2019. May 2019 additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - June 2019
- Audio: 2019 (April 30). Budidaya Padi di Sumba, Teknologi dan Perubahan Iklim. 2:50. VOA Indonesia. (Indonesian language broadcast about an SRI climate change program in Sumba Timur.) [accessed June 30, 2019]
- Video: 2019 (June 21). Rice Farming - by SRI technique. 27:42 min. Bhimashankar channel, Youtube. [Indian language video on organic SRI.]
- Video: 2019 (June 19). Smart agriculture: SPRI. 9:06 min. 國立屏東科技大學土木工程系 NPUST Department of Civil Engineering channel, Youtube. [Chinese, with English subtitles. NPUST work adapting SRI in Taiwan with additions for probiotics and precision ag technology]
- Video: 2019 (June 15). Six key elements: System of Rice Intensification (SRI). 0:48 min. Krishi GYAN channel, Youtube.
- Video: 2019. SRI4Women Story - Nilima. 8:05 min. sri4women channel, Vimeo. [Story of the president of the Ath-Kosia Tribal People's Organisation in Orissa, who promotes SRI to reduce women's drudgery in rice production.] [accessed June 5, 2019]
- Video: 2019 (January 28). Gerakan tanam padi organik pemerintah Kab Morowali bersama staf ahli Kementrian Pertanian. 4:55 min. Diskominfo Morowali channel, Youtube. [-in Indonesian language. Large organic SRI project in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.]
Presentations - June 2019
- Mati, Bancy. 2019. Improving Productivity of Rice under Water Scarcity in Africa: The Case for the System of Rice Intensification. 52 slides. Presentation at the International Rice Development Conference and Seminar on China-Africa Development. Changsha, China, June 26-29.
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
